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Software Engineer - RubyZipcar

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Today, Zipcar provides hundreds of thousands of people with a viable alternative to traditional car ownership, saving them money, time and headaches. Around the world?from coast to coast, across Canada, the UK, and college campuses in between?people are making the decision to live car free and enjoying the convenience and environmental benefits of having ?wheels when you want them?.
As we continue to grow our operations, we are looking for talented, passionate people with great ideas to join the family. We aim to create an environment that is supportive, diverse, and as fun as our brand. If you?re results-oriented, dedicated, and ready to contribute to an unparalleled member experience for our community of Zipsters, we encourage you to apply.

To learn more about Zipcar, what we do, and how we do it, visit zipcar.com. For further employment opportunities, visit zipcar.com/about/jobs.

SoftwareEngineer - Ruby

Zipcar is rapidly approaching a million active, paying drivers. To support the constant growth and the new features demanded by our customers, we're moving from startup mode to transportation powerhouse and need to grow our engineering team to back it all up.

A lot goes in to making the Zipcar experience seamless to our drivers, whether it's unlocking a car from a mobile phone, optimizing reservation availability lookups, or creating tools to route maintenance teams to vehicles. We need engineers who can look at an end-to-end problem, break it down, and know how attack it. In the end, we're looking for experienced, product-focused engineers who can fix real problems for real customers in real time.

Responsibilities:

Build and iterate on Zipcar?s next generation platforms
Collaborate closely with other engineers and our product team to enhance the Zipcar experience
Design and develop improvements to our web-based applications and tools
Qualifications:

Passion for developing software with the best user experience in mind
Significant experience in full-stack, web-based software development.
Command of your favorite server-side language (Ruby/Python/Java/etc.)
Demonstrable experience with Ruby on Rails and/or Sinatra
Experience with development, debugging, and performance tuning of database-backed systems.
Team player comfortable with Agile development techniques.